The Toronto Star's Dave Feschuk reports that the Sens are trying to limit the number of seats available by giving season subscribers first crack at additional (and deeply discounted) tickets, a plan that Feschuk is convinced will backfire.

"Let us assure Senators fans that help is not on the way, and change is most certainly not going to come -- at least, not for the better," he writes in Wednesday's paper. "Now that a certain mob of blue-and-white-clad fanatics is aware it’s not wanted in [Ottawa] on Feb. 23 -- the next time their heroes are scheduled to visit the Senators -- what are the odds they don’t descend in formidable numbers?